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Author Crichton-Harris, Ann

Title Poison in small measure : Dr. Christopherson and the cure for bilharzia / by Ann Crichton-Harris
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 428 pages) : illustrations
Contents Worms and dead eggs in the long hot summer -- Three generations of Christophersons : tanner to clergyman to physician -- The Boer War experience : the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital-a palace in the desert -- Sudan 1902-3 : smallpox delivers both fear and opportunity -- 1904 and the appointment blunder -- The wellcome laboratory on the Nile and a relapsing fever dispute. A storm in a teacup? Some of what really happened is revealed only in 1923 -- Christopherson's difficult years : surviving disaster : 1908-1911 -- 1912 marriage and the decision to remain in Sudan -- With the Red Cross in Serbia, and Rudolph Slatin's role as 'fairy godfather' -- France 1917. The commission on medical establishments -- The 'Aha' moment and consequences -- On the practice of medicine, Sudan 1902-1919 -- Life after Sudan-the varied life of a London consultant -- Heavensgate, Gloucestershire -- Looking back from the twenty-first century
Summary In Khartoum in 1917, Dr. Christopherson injected seventy bilharzia patients with antimony tartrate and cured them. This biography examines the life of this medical pioneer, his fight for priority and professional survival against the politics of exclusion in colonial Africa
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-414) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Christopherson, John Brian, 1868-1955.
SUBJECT Christopherson, John Brian, 1868-1955 fast
Śarmā, Kṛṣṇalāla Sūdana gnd
Christopherson, John Brian. swd
Subject Physicians -- Sudan -- Biography
Schistosomiasis -- Sudan -- History -- 20th century
Physicians.
Physicians
History, 20th Century
Schistosomiasis -- drug therapy
Schistosomiasis -- history
physicians.
MEDICAL -- Physicians.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical.
Physicians
Schistosomiasis
Bilharziose
Bekämpfung
SUBJECT England
Sudan
Subject Sudan
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009014373
ISBN 9789047428855
9047428854